Love removes the world for you, and just as surely when it's going well as when it's going badly.

For we did makeup. But we didn't forgive each other. And we didn't take steps. And it got to be too late and we saw that each of us had invested too much in being in the right and we walked away and it was a relief.

The skin of everyday appearances stretched over such shamelessness, such consuming explosions of lust.

They were all in their early thirties. An age at which it is sometimes hard to admit that what you are living is your life.

Country manners. Even if somebody phones up to tell you your house is burning down, they ask first how you are.

People have thoughts they’d sooner not have. It happens in life.

Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.